Only whaling ship to sink in Gulf of Mexico discovered after nearly 190 years
Not much is left of the two-masted wooden brig thought to be the Industry, a 65-foot-long whaler that foundered after a storm in 1836.
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Not much is left of the two-masted wooden brig thought to be the Industry, a 65-foot-long whaler that foundered after a storm in 1836.
Nearly 190 years later, experts say it's still the only whaler known to have gone down in the Gulf of Mexico.
Researchers checking out odd shapes during undersea scanning work on the sandy ocean floor believe they’ve finally found the shipwreck of a whaling ship from...
Researchers checking out odd shapes during undersea scanning work on the sandy ocean floor believe they’ve finally found the shipwreck of a whaling ship from...
Roughly 15 years before Herman Melville introduced the world to Moby Dick, a whaling ship from Massachusetts sank near the mouth of the Mississippi River. Read more on Boston.com.